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treatment. First, you might not want certain, ahem, private

materials to be part of your data trail.

Second, you might want to save space on the backup drive, either
because it’s not as big as your main drive or because you’d rather
dedicate its space to more backups of the essential stuff. For

example, you might decide not to back up your collection of
downloaded TV shows, since video files are enormous. Or maybe
you use an online photo-sharing website as a backup for your

photos, so you don’t think it’s necessary to include those in the File
History backup.

To omit certain files and folders, choose “Add a folder” (under the

“Exclude these folders” heading). In the resulting dialog box,
navigate your computer, choose a folder you don’t need backed up,

and hit “Choose this folder.”

Back up to a different drive. If you want to choose a different
drive for your backups, hit “Stop using drive,” and then choose a

new one. (The backups on the original drive are still safe.)

Recovering Files

All right, you’ve got File History on the job. You sleep easy at night.

Then, one day, it happens: Your hard drive crashes. Or you can’t find a file
or folder you know you had. Or you save a document and then wish you
could go back to an earlier draft. Some kind of disaster—sunspots, clueless

spouse, overtired self—has befallen your files. This is File History’s big
moment.

Do a search for file history; in the results list, choose “Restore your files

with File History.” The old Control Panel opens up (Figure 16-6, top). Your
job is to find the file in question, either because it’s been deleted or because
you want to rescue an older version of it. There are four ways to go about it:

browsing, Ribboning, searching, or Properties-ing.

Browsing for the file